The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-26
The Truth About Los Angeles.

TO the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journals
[ was somewhat surprised this morning by
reading descriptive lecture on lower California
by our felow-townsman, W. S. Hubbard, who
somewhat impuened my statement as given to
a representative Of the Journal, Dec l. have
no disposition to enter into a newspaper contro-
versy in relation to the glorious climate
Of lower California, and it was
not my intention to any com
ments on what / said about the climate, the
country, production or manner of living there;
but in justice to myself, deem it necessary to
say that everything contained in my interview
is true, and much more could be said against
that over-inhated country that I could not or
did not call to mind at the time. Mr.. Hubbard
insnuates that the reason 1 did not get better
food while in Los Angeles was because stopped
at second-class hotel. If the Nanda and Clifton
houses second-class hotels I would be
obliged to Mr. II. to inform me in what portion
of the city of Los Angeles the frstclass
hotels located. In travelling I make
it a rule never to be in debt to
my stomach and always select the best hotels,
without regard to cost Mr.. Fl. further remarks
that as I only remained in the Flowery Land
about ten days, that am not qualified to give
an appropriated opinion and inters that I can
not possibly know as much about the country as
he does. who has passed four winters there.
Well, have only this to that some
men are so constituted that thsy never learn
much of anything, while others can grasp the
situation at a glance, and give an intelligent
reason for everything they do and say. How
ever that Is as it may be- but can say this to
Mr.. Hubbard that was in that glorious eli
mate long enough to learn that the '.heas and
flies" that infest that favored spot are simply
intolerable That the Thermometer ran ges from
SOP at midnight to 1902 at midday. That the
cloud OF dust that hang Los Angeles
during the daytime is perfectly terrible; that
the dense fogs that sometimes envelop that
sunny land are so annoying that it is difficult to
navigate through them, no matter how
good the pilot; that at the present time they
cutting down the orange groves. digging up
the vineyards and selling the land for building
lots or to SPECTATORS who living in hopes of
catching Eastern suckers TO unload o. and to
exempify to the fulles: @. K Philander
us this day our daily stranger" In
regard TO the water supply will say: Yes
there Is plenty of it, such as it is. Alkali for
the poor, and good, fresh water for the rich.
No place for poor man It may be true what
Mr.. III. says about some of Indianapolis
people wintering there but they al in good
circumstances and can afford to CRAFTY every
wish or desire. Almost any spot earth may
be made desirable under such circumstances,
but for the business men to 60 there with the OBJ
ject of making money in a purely legitimate
business way, with country produce the
necessaries of life, foreign importations,
having to buy everything they consume. Is per-
fectly ridiculous to think of am reliably in
formed that DR.. Hussey, whom Mr.. Hubbard
California, wired back, his arrival TO his
agent here TO sell all his Indianapolis property;
but, after weeks soiourn there, counter
manded the order. He seems to have arrived at